affairs
Concerns or dalliances
Affairs are matters requiring attention or management: business affairs, foreign affairs, put your affairs in order.
The word often implies complexity or importance—financial affairs, affairs of state.
In the singular, an affair is an event or occasion, often elaborate: a black-tie affair.
An affair is also a romantic or sexual relationship outside marriage: He's having an affair with his secretary.
Restricted to certain parties
- familyRelated people together
- financialRelating to money
- legalPermitted by statute
- estateProperty and grounds
household · matters · concerns · arrangements · obligations · responsibilities · paperwork · executor
Disloyalty to a partner
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
- extramaritalOutside the marriage bond
- liaisonConnector between groups
- trystSecret romantic meeting
paramour · mistress · lover · cheating · unfaithfulness · dalliance · clandestine · secret
Negotiation between nations
- statecraftArt of government
- foreignFrom another nation
- domesticOf the home
- internationalConcerning relations among countries
government · policy · legislation · elections · governance · sovereignty · parliament · senate
Of or relating to companies
- commerceExchange of goods, services
- tradeExchange of commodities
- enterpriseCommercial undertaking or initiative
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
market · industry · finance · investment · merger · acquisition · revenue · negotiation
Hiding wrongdoing from public
- exposeMake known publicly
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
- briberyCorrupt payment for influence
- improprietyUnsuitable or inappropriate behavior
misconduct · disgrace · allegation · investigation · whistleblower · leak · testimony · resignation
private
Restricted to certain parties
estate · household · matters · concerns · arrangements · obligations · responsibilities · paperwork · executor · beneficiary
infidelity
Disloyalty to a partner
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
- extramaritalOutside the marriage bond
- liaisonConnector between groups
tryst · paramour · mistress · lover · cheating · unfaithfulness · dalliance · clandestine · secret · illicit
diplomacy
Negotiation between nations
- statecraftArt of government
- foreignFrom another nation
- domesticOf the home
international · government · policy · legislation · elections · governance · sovereignty · parliament · senate · democracy
corporate
Of or relating to companies
- commerceExchange of goods, services
- tradeExchange of commodities
- enterpriseCommercial undertaking or initiative
management · market · industry · finance · investment · merger · acquisition · revenue · negotiation · clientele
cover-up
Hiding wrongdoing from public
- exposeMake known publicly
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
- briberyCorrupt payment for influence
impropriety · misconduct · disgrace · allegation · investigation · whistleblower · leak · testimony · resignation · trial
gala
Festive formal occasion
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- banquetFormal celebratory meal
- receptionAct of receiving guests
soiree · function · gathering · formal · state · charity · social · black-tie · invitation · catering
- betrayalsbackstabbing, cheating, disloyalty, double-crossing, infidelity
- infidelityadultery, adulteress, cheating, cheater, unfaithful
- affairs
- celebritycelebs, stardom, A-list, A-listers, movie stars
- happeningshappenings, happening, event, occurrence, events
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
affairstrivia
Unimportant miscellaneous facts
trifles · trivialities · minutiae · inconsequentialities · frivolities
affairsfidelity
Loyalty or exactness
faithfulness · marriage · monogamy · commitment · loyalty
- love affairRomantic relationship, often intense
- having an affairExtramarital romantic involvement
- have an affairEngage in marital infidelity
- internal affairsOfficers investigating officers
- state of affairsCurrent overall situation
- had an affairWas sexually unfaithful
affair, love affair, foreign affairs, state of affairs, current affairs, public affairs, extramarital affair